Scientists are debating the classification of threatened mollusks that an Indigenous community relies on for their way of ...

State officials are asking for the public’s help in combating aquatic invasive species, which can cause significant economic ...

There are many poorly understood links in the food web, often referred to as trophic relationships. Out in East Antarctica, a ...

When the option is to adapt or starve, animals are no stranger to getting scrappy in the face of climate change. Researchers ...

Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back. By Franz Lidz In Patricia Highsmith’s ...

A 65-year-old man from Hawaii has died after he fell into the ocean and was carried away by "strong currents," officials said. On the morning of Friday, Feb. 27, a Keaʻau man was picking ‘opihi — a ...

The Australian trumpet snail, the world's largest gastropod, uses its long proboscis to hunt giant worms deep beneath the ocean floor. The Australian trumpet snail (Syrinx aruanus), a giant gastropod ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. Burmese pythons have unraveled food webs for decades. Asian swamp eels threaten wading birds. Green iguanas damage landscapes and infrastructure.

The southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia is becoming less salty at an astonishing rate, largely due to climate change, new research shows. In a study published in Nature Climate ...

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo Chester Zoo A rare greater Bermuda snail, once believed to be ...

The start of the second month hasn't been particularly soggy, and calling February's first days "splashy," or even a tad damp, would not be accurate. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever ...